Investing in Israel: The Summer Market
So after a lot of Pesach food and an Israeli election — a round of all-out two-day warfare — we now go into an Israeli summer where everyone is...
Ohel’s Inaugural Real Estate 200 (Re200) Was The Real Deal!
On April 9, OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services welcomed 200 leading New York area real estate professionals to the landmark Apple Bank for Savings on the Upper West...
With All Due Diligence
By Gedaliah Borvick
We recently were involved in a very small deal in Jerusalem, and I mean tiny. We sold a 15-square-meter, or approximately 160-square-foot, studio in Rechavia for 500,000...
Tiny Houses: A Creative Low-Income Housing Idea
By Anessa Cohen
Low-income housing has always followed three molds provided by government agencies. The first mold is building apartment buildings with units rented to different levels of low- to...
Migdal Villas: Vacation Properties In Israel With Excellent Rental Potential
By Rochelle Miller
Imagine owning a beautiful vacation property, in Israel, and earning a significant rental yield on your unit. Celebrated as a premier vacation town in Israel, Migdal is...
Investing in Israel: High-End Purchases
By Ben Levene and Heskel Balas
I was reading a Globes article sent to me by a client of mine from New York this week. The most interesting fact from...
Ramat Givat Zeev Is Expanding
The finest neighborhood built in the last decade for new immigrants is expanding.
Construction of two additional buildings, containing 40 new housing units, has been approved and, when at full...
Real Estate with Anessa: Paving The Way To Summer
It is absolutely amazing! The sun starts shining and the temperature passes 60 degrees, and the sound of grumbling goes down and people around you are all smiling. Can’t...
Apartment Hunting in Israel During Chol Ha’moed
By Gedaliah Borvick
A client wanted to go apartment hunting in Jerusalem during chol ha’moed Pesach but was unsure whether according to halachah he may do so. I told him...
Real Estate with Anessa: Assessing The Tax Assessment
By now, every Nassau County homeowner must have received at least one copy of the “Dear Property Owner” rip-off letters Laura Curran has sent out in her “quest” for...
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Arson Suspected in Mevo Modi’im Blaze
Investigations into the fire which destroyed the Mevo Modi’im community last week have determined that the evidence points to arson.
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A moment of silence on Memorial Day
In 2000, Congress enacted the National Moment of Remembrance to further honor American fallen war heroes. All citizens...
Germans Warned of Risks of Wearing Kippah in Public
BERLIN (JTA) – It is dangerous to identify publicly as Jewish in Germany, including wearing a kippah, Germany’s commissioner on antisemitism said.
In a wide-ranging...